Maine Revised Statutes

Title 14, Chapter 205: LIMITATION OF ACTIONS

Subchapter 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS

14 §751. Twenty years

14 §752. Six years

14 §752-A. Design professionals

14 §752-B. Ski areas

14 §752-C. Sexual acts towards minors

14 §752-D. Land surveyors

14 §752-E. Crime victims; profits from crime

14 §753. Two years

14 §753-A. Actions against attorneys (REPEALED)

14 §753-B. Actions against attorneys

14 §754. One year

Subchapter 2: REAL ACTIONS

14 §801. Rights of entry and action barred in 20 years

14 §802. Right begins to run

14 §803. Right deemed to accrue

14 §804. Entry for condition broken

14 §805. Accrual of right of entry

14 §806. Action by minister or sole corporation

14 §807. Minors and other disabled persons

14 §808. Death during period of disability

14 §809. Death of tenant in tail or remainderman before end of limitation

14 §810. Type of possession; need for enclosure

14 §810-A. Mistake of boundary line

14 §811. Failure of first action; effect on limitations

14 §812. Acquisition of rights-of-way and easements by adverse possession; notice to prevent

14 §812-A. Dedication of land in the unorganized territory to public use; notice to prevent

14 §812-B. Recording requirements

14 §813. Adverse obstruction on rights-of-way; interruption by notice

14 §814. Trespass on wild lands; notice to quit; record; private roads in unorganized territory

14 §815. Forty years' possession bars action for recovery of land

14 §816. Limitations of actions for uncultivated lands in incorporated places

14 §817. Limitation of actions for breach of covenants; vested interest in 6-year limitations period

Subchapter 3: MISCELLANEOUS ACTIONS

14 §851. Actions against sheriff for escape; for misconduct

14 §852. Mutual and open accounts current

14 §853. Persons under disability may bring action when disability removed

14 §854. Actions for breach of promise to marry prohibited

14 §855. Commencement of new action after failure, defeat or reversal

14 §856. Death of either party before action commenced (REPEALED)

14 §857. Rights of alien enemies in time of war

14 §858. Limitation on actions for penalties

14 §859. Limitation extended in cases of fraud

14 §860. Renewal of promise in writing

14 §861. Judgment where action barred against some and not others

14 §862. When nonjoinder of defendants is pleaded

14 §863. Partial payment and indorsement

14 §864. Presumption of payment after 20 years

14 §865. Application of limitations to counterclaims

14 §866. Defendant out of State when action commenced; insolvency

14 §867. Foreign corporations covered by limitations

14 §868. Action to recover damages for land taken for public use

14 §869. Action barred when no administrator 6 years after death

14 §870. Judgment by perjury; action on case

14 §871. Public Works Contractors' Surety Bond Law of 1971